High diving concludes on Saturday with the final two rounds and medal events, while the broader European Aquatics Championships run through to 16 August. View image in fullscreen France’s Gary Hunt in the men’s 20m high diving event. More than 1,000 athletes are competing in five disciplines: swimming, diving, artistic swimming, open-water swimming and high diving. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty ImagesFor many French people, making the Seine clean enough for swimming again seemed a distant dream. “Paris is not just a postcard image, it is also a magnificent sporting venue,” said Sauvage.